Pteridospermales
Pteridospermales (seed ferns) Extinct gymnosperm order, which were the earliest seed plants and flourished in the Carboniferous, before disappearing in the Cretaceous. Their foliage was fern-like in appearance, but the fertile leaves bore seeds and pollen-producing organs. The first plant to be identified (in 1903) as a seed plant rather than a true fern was Lyginopteridales oldhamia.
Pteridospermales
Pteridospermales (seed ferns) An extinct gymnosperm order, containing the earliest seed plants, which flourished in the Carboniferous, before disappearing in the Cretaceous.
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